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[Unlike the norm, Shiki appears on screen wearing his glasses. Holding his comm with one hand and fixing his glasses with the other by shifting his index finger against the bridge, Shiki opens his mouth to speak and is cut off by rushing air. Moving aside, he narrowly steps aside as a segment of the darkened street he's standing nearby is obliterated by a scythe made of wind. The clean slash in the ground is exposed only after the dust clears, a bit easier to notice despite the drizzle of the unending storm above.]

Jeez, what bad timing. [This is Shiki's only comment as he drops his communicator, the wind picking up as windows begin to shatter and parts of the brick walls around them come undone in the air. Out comes Shiki's knife and in one curt gesture, he slashes the air and the wind dies down instantly.

Unabated, Kagura, riding her summoned feather hangs in the air in plain sight of the camera, swiping her fan nonchalantly without a single word. Bladed winds come down from the sky and they disappear with swipes of Shiki's knife, before he turns over the blade and it shifts, turning into a full length katana.

The two exchange a little silence as if trying to reach each other and the feed cuts off in the next instant as Kagura's next attack destroys Shiki's comm.]

(OOC: Shiki's communicator was destroyed in this post and he'll be getting a new one sometime in the evening. His replies will be dated later in the day! Otherwise, feel free to action in! The fighting will be done with both parties in quite a bit of pain.)

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[With that out of the way, Kagura can focus not on others showing up to this little fight, but on proving to Shiki that she's worth fighting. He'd pay for what he said, she knew. She'd pay with that life of his, the arrogant bastard.

Her attacks don't stop coming in as she summons a swarm of tornadoes to block Shiki from running. She had no desire to drag this out any longer. It would be swift is she had anything to say about it. She'd even take his head to the Initiative herself. She begins to move the tornadoes closer to where he is, entrapping him in her wind, hopefully, with the bricks and shards of glass the tornadoes are picking up as they get closer.]

[Because she mixed her demonic energy into the wind itself, Shiki had an easier time following the lines which signified how the winds themselves were beginning. He didn't have to struggle with the concept of the 'wind' itself, which would have been even more damaging to his eyes. He just had to identify with his pure eyes where the energy was going and respond to it.

The little 'cracks' in the tornados became plainly visible. With three swipes of his sword, Shiki took a few steps and one by one, the tornados simply 'ceased'. The winds didn't die down. They just stopped being there. Dust fell and the remains of bricks scattered as they simply landed on the ground.

Lifting his head to look at Kagura instead, Shiki began walking in her direction, waiting for the next attack so he could plan a real counter-attack.]

[The look on her face when the wind was gone was priceless. How the hell did he do that?! She was the one in control of the wind here, and she would not have some brat take that away from her. As he looked at her, she looked indignant and enraged, knowing she would have to step up what she was doing. So, first, she would try to bring in more tornadoes, five or so, then compounding them with wind blades tearing down at him from the sky. There was no way he could handle all of them coming at him at once.]

[He would have found it amusing to think about it in another moment, but Kagura was more skilled than she let on. Shiki watched for a moment as the tornados touched down, knowing he couldn't kill them without direct contact and as she made them more complex, cutting and killing them was even more unlikely.

He rushed forward, jumping and killing one wind blade before he pushed against the wall nearest. One foot touched it and despite his seemingly small stature, he ran up it, killing one twister as he rose past the swarming air blades below. Shiki advanced, pushing past another tornado and killed it with another swing of his sword, all while he kept his eyes on Kagura, anticipating more attacks.

There was still more distance to clear and blasts of wind in his way, but he still had his target.]

[So...three tornadoes left and all her wind blades gone to waste. Damn. Now she understood, though, that a barrage of things would be the best way to attack. And, unfortunately for him, there had been civilians in her line of fire. While they were mangled, they would do. Using Dance of the Dead, Kagura began to storm him with the corpses, letting the tornadoes have free reign as she attempts to stop his progress on her. If she could just get him pinned by the bodies for even a second....she could kill him.]

I should apologize. [When Shiki touched the ground, one of the corpses grabbed onto his arm and without a second thought, he cut the person in two. It was a simple swing of his knife that turned the person into pieces. The next fell with ease, Shiki's mind erasing his compassion for them. They were already dead because of me. In the next instant, the next lost their arms and the wind lashed at him, throwing him against a wall. His head swam, but he still rose.

Turning his sword into a spear, Shiki jabbed his weapon through the next twister, dissipating it like the others.]

What I meant when I told you that you weren't a real monster was... Alongside vampires, I can be called a true monster.

[By his side, he picked up a shard of glass and threw it with practiced ease--cutting through Kagura's connection to one of the corpses, dropping it to the ground as if the strings of a marionette left its body.]

'Death'. Everything comes to an end, whether it's living or not. I can see the weakness and frailty in anything. I can kill it whether it's magic or just a rock, a human or a demon--

[As if he saw right through Kagura, he took one step forward, stepping shakily--not out of fatigue or pain, but because of the death he saw under his feet. In Shiki's world, everything was constantly falling apart.]

I can even see the death in that second soul in you.

[She can't say she was surprised. But, at least, she'll stop when he's talking, letting the rest of the corpses fall to the ground. She's not really paying attention, though--by now, her rage is in full circuit, his apology meaning nothing to her. She does better with actions, not words. When the shard of glass is thrown, she makes a blade to stop it, instinctively, although it wasn't going close to her. But, that last line gets her.

Death? Second soul? He couldn't be...talking about that, though, could he. With a new found source of anger amidst her confusion, she simply yells.]

Apologizing won't save your life!

[And another barrage of tornadoes head for him.]

[Sango eyes this feed incredulously.

Just like these two idiots, to get into a brawl.

But she is not particularly fond of either, and she knows they're only going to get resurrected anyway... so she'll stay out of it, for now.]

[This is home sweet home, she supposes.

At 1003, Shiki feels like she finally has the chance to sit down; and when she does, she decides to turn on her tablet. She's sort of gotten into the habit of checking it, since it seems like that's the only way she'll get info on what's going on... and she's even started replying a little to the people who post.

Bit by bit, she's getting more comfortable, though of course, there's no way she could have predicted what would happen in this particular feed. When the tablet drops, she jerks back a bit in surprise -- and when the screen cuts out, she's that much more alarmed.

That was... weird. That guy had been attacked...?!]

['course, even if she wanted to help, there's no way she could know where he is. She only got a glimpse of his surroundings, and admittedly wasn't paying attention to them; so she's stuck, waiting it out and wondering. She has no idea when all that took place anyway... so maybe she'll never find out what happened to the guy.

That's her next line of thought, so imagine her surprise when she sees him walk right through the door.]

?!

[She jumps up in surprise. Probably the last thing she'd been expecting -- so unfortunately, her initial response isn't very coherent.]

It's... It's you!

[Tohno stared vacantly in the doorway as he actually opened it. It hadn't exactly been the greatest of days for him, so he looked at his counterpart-in-names with a measure of scrutiny. He hadn't exactly had roommates the last he checked, but then again he had only really been there weeks ago, before his ridiculous trip around what used to be Western Europe.

Pausing, he opened his mouth briefly, only really speaking after Misaki's initial reaction.]

It's me. [It felt better to talk rather than swing his knife. This was less comfortable and easy to him, but it yielded better results.] Do I actually have a roommate, now?

[He had a depleted looking expression, his glasses tucked in his breast pocket for later use. Really, it didn't matter if he wore them or not. Simply for the sake of appearances, Tohno pulled his glasses on and gave the young lady a little less dead and vacant stare.]

My name is Shiki.

As if I'd care to beg. I just want you to understand.

[Shiki picked up another shard of glass and threw it into a blade of wind coming close to him. In the next step, he advanced and killed the last twisted before one of the corpses came close to him. With indifference, Shiki stabbed his index finger into one of its eyes and its line of death, causing it to deteriorate rapidly and turn to dust with exceptional speed.

With that, came Shiki's next move and Kagura's next host of twisters. He killed the two closest, finding the third too large to properly advance on, but that was fine enough. Rushing directly into it, Shiki hurled himself up along a wall with the wind's momentum, scaling it with his hands at feet at once. As a spider crawled, Shiki rushed through the air and along the wall to intercept Kagura's feather, his knife drawn.

His hollow eyes were set on he as he poised to catch her off guard.]

[Raven lands on top of a nearby wall.]

I see you changed your mind about not wanting to make friends.

[To Kagura and obviously sarcastic.]

[Kagura glares at the sources of the new voice, clearly not wanting company.]

Why don't you just go away! Do you want to die too?

[Kagura was out of luck. She barely had enough time to even comprehend what was occurring, let alone do anything about it. Had he just used her wind against her? No one had ever done that before. The sheer shock had thrown her off guard, and when he landed on her feather, her only choice was attempt to dismount and not get herself killed right now.]

[ Ashraf hadn't bothered answering on the network, especially as it seemed the tablet had been broken. There wouldn't be any use in that, then.

Instead, he'd hurried out of the clinic and into the city itself, fiddling with his own tablet for a while. He's still pretty slow with this thing, but somewhere around here is a setting for discovering the location of a post... ah, there. He starts out quickly, aided by magically-enhanced steps, and makes it on the scene... well, a little late. He only sees one of the combatants. ]

Hey! [ Well, one's better than nothing. He hurries toward Kagura. ] Are you alright?

[The question of how he got into the room hadn't hit her until that moment, but it makes sense now. His attitude is rather deadpan about it though, so -- taking his example, she calms, sitting back down as she keeps her eyes on him. A roommate, huh? Honestly, when she pictured an ideal roommate, she thought of people like Eri, and maybe Rhyme... but it would probably be OK.

...Her jaw does hang open though, hearing his name. She can't help it.]

Oh. My name's Shiki, too! Um... [No need to get excited now, no need to get excited --] Shiki Misaki. And I was just assigned here a couple days ago, so...

Yeah. Heh, I guess you do.

[Smiling, she grabs Mr. Mew who's been sitting nearby, and waves his arms a bit as a greeting.]

[His feet touched down on the feather itself and with an air of ease, Shiki slipped his knife in front of Kagura's fan, looking to cut the lines of death connecting her demonic energy to the winds below to be rid of the tornados just shy of their feet. In his next gesture, Shiki's free hand reached over to grab for Kagura's wrist, holding the fan, so he could trace her lines of death up her arm with his fingertips.]

This isn't the first time I've fought wind magic.

[Sore. His entire body was sore. It came from running up and down walls when remaining a normal human being. He felt his legs buckle and his body quake forward when he fell off of Kagura's feather, but it was still possible for him to walk. Pain, he thought, was a good sign that he was still alive and healthy enough to do the basics.]

Guess I should have expected it. [Shiki spoke a little more softly than he would have liked. As he stepped in through the door, he could feel pain settling in on him much more readily before, but he still did his best to look as normal as possible. It had been his hope to collapse in the doorway, but he could at least try and make it to his bed, first.]

Are you Japanese? [It sounded like a dumb question on his part, he thought. She had a japanese name, but he couldn't have imagined anyone would look anymore European or American than that.]

What makes you so sure you actually could kill me?

[He had her cornered. Unable to block much of anything, all she could do was struggle against him as he moved, watching her tornadoes disappear and the dust settle. It was almost quiet, for a second. And the touch? It would have almost been romantic.

Had it not been for a bloodcurdling scream coming from Kagura. In pain, she tried to struggle, pulling her arm away from him as her eyes widened and became bloodshot, pain searing from every point in her body.]

STOP!

Ngh....

[Thankfully, Kagura didn't look hurt. There were no wounds, nothing even suggesting that she had been in a fight of physical sorts. But, from the look of the girl who was just laying in a crumpled heap on the ground, barely responding to the man standing over her.

She just wanted the pain to stop.But...it wasn't going away. It was there, constantly, searing through every bone in her body and piercing every thought.]

Want me to try, brat?!

I'm sorry for harming your ego. That was rude of me. [Shiki, watching as Kagura fell back, held the edge of her feather with his fingers, readied in case it would fall. For the moment, it seemed like he had a chance to walk. Every time he did that to someone, it surprised him--but, not immensely.

It was only natural that pushing on someone's 'death' would hurt like hell.]

But, if you try and kill me, I have to respond. Despite that, I don't want to kill you. I'm not sure if this alternative is worse or not.

[Kagura fell forward, and with her, the feather began a descent downwards, slowly, even though she was in so much pain. She tried to force her mouth open, but all that would come out is a scream. She had no way to beg. She looked at Shiki, her eyes trying to plead for him to stop.]

[The feather came close and even before it landed, Shiki jumped off and stood up straight, slipping his sheathed knife back into his pocket. Reaching up to pull his glasses on, he looked back towards Kagura with a measure of irritation--almost entirely with himself.]

Yeah, I can tell you... Being a monster isn't all that great.

[He left her, the broken ribs he earned from that climb up the tornado not bothering him just as yet, but he'd certainly remember them in awhile.]

[At that, Shiki can't help but scoot to make room on the couch for him -- just in case he'd rather collapse there first. She looks worried about him, despite his attempts to look "normal"; though his injuries are probably to be expected, given what she saw. She definitely want to invade his personal space, though, not so soon. So she'll leave it up to him to decide what he needs to do.

...She's got a question to answer, anyways.]

Yeah, that's right. From Shibuya, to be more specific. [She gives a nod. It's just too bad their origins don't seem to matter all that much here, but... she'll ask him in return anyway:]

How... about you?

[It was natural, he thought. Each step was grinding pain the moment he was in an air of safety. The moment he was in a situation where he could kill, he seemed to forget the limits of his own body. He supposed it might have been his old man training it all into him, though he could never remember any of it. His body, though, remembered every minute detail.]

Misaki, actually. [He stopped, keeping himself from leaning against something by diverting his path to the kitchen. He didn't keep anything in there, really, when he essentially lived by himself. There had only ever been bottled water, which he opened up the refrigerator to look for.]

I don't think I've ever been to Shibuya.

I wouldn't mind but... [She points at the boy.] weren't you supposed to finish with him first?

Oh --

[Man, coincidences everywhere. Her face lights up for a moment again in surprise at hearing the name; but it quickly melts back into a smile. She watches as he opens up the refrigerator -- mentally scolding herself for not thinking of it first. She could've gotten the water for him...

Bah. So much for good first impressions. But she supposes it could be worse.]

I haven't been to Misaki, so that sort of makes us even.

[Heh! She just pauses there for a moment; though she isn't expecting much of a response to that, so she goes on easily:]

But um... are you okay?

It isn't that big. [Shiki commented offhandedly, unscrewing the first bottle of water he found. Under the guard of the refrigerator door, Shiki touched his side to feel one of the broken ribs. Despite the pain, he knew his skin and muscles were intact. Touching it didn't radiate a massive increase in pain, so luckily it didn't send sharp splinters anywhere, but it was still very much something he wasn't looking forward to waking up to.]

I'm just a little sore. I'm still not used to training. [He lied with ease, pulling off his jacket and shutting the refrigerator with his foot. Drinking the water without raising it too high--knowing that stretching his ribs too far would be pain enough to wince, Shiki fixed his glasses with the tip of the bottle.]

It can't be said that we're allowed to slack.

I can take two of you at once.

[It takes her a moment, but eventually Shiki stands back up and approaches him -- though still keeps enough distance between them that she gives him his space. She doesn't know what to make of his words just yet, and she hasn't gotten a good look at his injuries -- but it's not as if he's wrong.]

That's true.

[Training, huh...?]

So that's what it was all about, then... it looked like she caught you a bit off guard, though.

[Not that she really caught a good look at Kagura, but still.]

[There wasn't any thought to his lie at all.]

It was a prank. Nothing you need to worry about. [Though, he certainly did. If he didn't give her a real reason to kill him before, he definitely did just then. With a measure of calmness, he could trudge past it, but how many attempts on his life could he deal with before she went to the effort of killing more and more people to get to him?]

Admittedly, I think I should sleep it off.

[A prank... and training are two very different things. That only makes her more curious, though it isn't like she can press him on it now. Especially not when he mentions needing some rest... and admittedly, it really looks like he does.

She simply keeps the curiosity to herself, as perks up a bit, looking surprised.]

Oh, duh -- (Shiki, you're kind of an idiot.) Yeah, of course! Go ahead... I- I didn't mean to keep you or anything.

[A pause. She glances over towards the bedroom doors... more specifically the one door she hadn't been able to open, before turning back to him.]

You won't even know I'm here.

[Giving himself a break from his own mind-numbing depression, Tohno gave Misaki the slightest of smiles and fixed the cap back on his bottle of water before he leaned in the direction of his bedroom door.]

I wouldn't worry about it. I'm probably going to sleep straight through the morning pretty easy. [He swung his door open and all the pain showed on his face the moment he was looking away from Misaki.]

[ A lack of visible wounds doesn't stop him. As soon as he's within ten feet of her, he throws out a hand. Her form is bathed in green light, soothing and rejuvenating. His heal is strong, stronger than most in his world, but he can recognize that someone in her shape will probably need more than just the one. So he casts it again, and again, coming nearer all the while. By the time he's cast the spell four times he's ended in a crouch next to her, one hand out to find her shoulder. ]

It's alright, I've got you. You're going to be fine.

[Shiki gives him a nod, watching him while still maintaining her distance, for now. She returns his smile in kind as he approaches the door and opens it.]

I hope so.

[...he's turned away from her now, but, she continues nevertheless:]

I'll probably be staying in tonight too, so... if anything comes up, don't be afraid to let me know.

[A girl's gotta pull her own weight, after all. She'd like to do her part to help.]

I seriously doubt that. [Let's get real Kagura.]

[She was still in pain, but at least the pain had lessened. She lifted her head and looked at him, still looking weak, but able enough to attempt to stand, biting back screams of pain.]

I...I'm fine.

I'll kill you, bitch!

Now let's not get over friendly here.

[Well they're officially bffs now, it seems. XD]

Insolent brat! [Aaand now you've got a tornado heading your way.]

[Raven's widen a bit in surprise. Then her eyes flash white and she morphs into a crow of black energy. The bird flies through the tornado before landing on top of yet another building. After a few seconds it morphs back into Raven.]

Next time it gets windy I'll know who to blame.

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